Is that a mothership in the sky?
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I'd run around with my shotgun, firing wildly into the air. Then I'd give up and go back to watching T.V.
Also, this, for the "we could just nuke 'em" crowd. Firing nukes at an alien spacecraft would be like firing tank shells at a Harrier; you're not going to hit it and something bad is going to happen if you try.Muslim Wookie said:
use our own germs on them hell maybe an archa bacteria might be hostile to them? (didn't spell it right but...)
archa bacteria are basically not hostile bacteria that are so badass that they can live in lava and shit like that and you can't kill them so basically they could wipe out an entire civilization.
If they felt like it, lazy bums....
archa bacteria are basically not hostile bacteria that are so badass that they can live in lava and shit like that and you can't kill them so basically they could wipe out an entire civilization.
If they felt like it, lazy bums....
It would if you didn't reveal you regularly pay us out with horrible accents! That's just mean! It's not like we do it to, say, New Zealanders all of the time...Neonbob said:
It's their accents, they're simply too funny not to poke fun at! It's a great Australian tradition!Neonbob said:
Kollega said:
To answer this question simply: "You don't want to know".
To answer this in more detail:
I'd seemingly sell out humanity if they would have me.
See, the bottom line is that these guys have better technology. I disagree about the idea of nukes ruining our ecosystem (depends on the kind of nuke, and a lot of other factors), and they might be effective, but on the other hand these guys have FTL and tech we have no equivilent to.
If we were to successfully defeat them, overtly or covertly, chances are we'd wind up losing their tech, except for wreckage we could reverse engineer. What's more conquest by an outside force will succeed at unifying humanity, and at least give us a common goal of freedom if the servitude is unpleasant, any eventual freedom will come as a species as opposed to as seperate cultures/nations/whatever. Alien invasion being a miracle (like a global disaster/meltdown/apocolypse)in of the way it could pull everyone together.
At any rate it occurs to me that from inside it's a better chance to actually learn their stuff, and master it, and of course to rebel with their own weapons.
Of course a lot of this depends on the details, since you mentioned "servitude" being an option which has a differant ring than say "slavery".
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To be frank also, I'd also mention that I'd also be willing to neogiate an "uplift" agreement so to speak (for those familiar with the series). That is say to agree to agree to vassalage in exchange for technology and sponsorship. This species probably not being the only similarly advanced species out there ahead of us.
The basic idea is that in exchange for their stuff, we kick back a portion of anything we get from that point further in our own intergalactic sponsors.
This might surprise people, but I've read some examples of how such a thing could work and actually benefit everyone involved to an extent. Besides which, consider that in the end the very existance of such outside influance is "saving" humanity, by providing unity that we had (presumably) been unable th achieve ourselves before thing point, and also getting us off our homeworld to expand our population before our resources are depleted and/or our sun melts down.
I personally would become a servant. I would like to think that I am charismatic enough however, to eventually be made an ambassador of sorts or translator. The big picture would be, another civilization has made contact with ours and in some way or another, our worlds will be integrated. Better to do things peaceably so as to get that seat on the Galactic Council sooner as opposed to later.
Put the Korean Starcraft players in command of the entire world's armies. They'll know how to win.